PC World

  • Thread starter Thread starter SPG
  • Start date Start date
tesco is good for this. they refund you double the difference. happend when buying a bottle of ciroc vodka that was on offer that had expired but the label still sayed £4 off. went back to the checkout and they gave me £8 back. don't really know why they do this as others have said they don't have to.

i read that one women found an expired special offer on washing up pod, she knew tesco were going to give her double the difference back so she went to town and emptied the shelves just to profit.
 
There are things I like to see before I buy, for example a 55" OLED TV was on my radar a few weeks ago so I popped into the local Currys to have a play with one. In the end I decided not to buy, but if I did want one I would have researched the price online to compare. I would only walk out the store if the online saving was significant, else I would buy from the shop.

I'm not sure what value I would be happy to pay extra in store, maybe around £50 on an item priced at £1,500.

Anyway, point being I would pay extra in store if it wasn't too much more expensive.
 
Malevolence said:
@SexyGreyFox I wonder if it was your mate who helped me leave when I got escorted out of the Festival Park store because, as I was just mooching about whilst a mate looked for a new printer, I overheard a staff member blatantly lying to a customer by claiming a MX440 was a better graphics card than a Ti4400. Because I was bored to rears I politely butted in and corrected him and then told the customer that the Ti4400 they were after was considerably cheaper at a certain Stoke based specialist computer store. The store monkey went and grassed me up to the manager who then got the security bloke to escort me through the doors and off the car-park. :D
Click to expand...

He's really ugly, one of his hands is smaller than the other like Jeremy Beadle but you wouldn't mess with him.
 
I used to buy stuff from my local one when I was like 16-17 because I was too impatient to wait for it to be delivered if I ordered online from ocuk or other pc sites lol
 
SPG said:
Also seriously how many types of the them of the pod thing coffee machines just the western world actually need ?
Click to expand...

genius :D

i guess they make their sales from being big, reasonably reputable (as in if you buy a pc from them it wont come with cracked software, which can happen with the small independent companies), and most importantly they're available.

i do dislike them, especially after catching their sales staff downright lying about not being able to buy single-use office keys (he claimed you could only buy it as a subscription), a quick link to Microsoft's site shut him up but its annoying that the person i was with probably would have been hoodwinked if i wasn't there.
 
Rroff said:
Nope.

If the prices are constantly misleading, etc. they can land themselves in trouble with trading standards and might occasionally honour it in the light of that but a retailer is in no obligation to sell you anything. It is only once the contract is complete that they can't turn around and say "actually that was £100 more", etc. and expect you to pay the extra.

EDIT: Though we've got used to shopping in a specific way the prices are only actually a guide in theory either party could bargain or negotiate before a sale with neither obliged to enter into a sale without both agreeing.
Click to expand...

Correct.

Source : I used to work at PC World. 20 years ago.
 
BDEE said:
Am I the only one who has no idea what the OP is on about? I can barely translate the "language" that it is written in. Just able to work out that they got an incorrectly labelled item for cheaper than it should have been and this somehow lead to them being some kind of God like being within the store?

Is there anymore to it than that? Did he get petrol from next door and set the place on fire? Did he make himself a coffee whilst there?

I am confused.
Click to expand...


Translate this.....

Like i care... have a nice day.
 
I've had no issues with them tbh, got my 1070 from my local store in the summer for £299 on clearance when everyone else was hiking the price to over £400 and my partner and I bought 55" and 43" LG tv's from them because the price was better than the competition.

The staff are generally clueless but this isn't an issue if you bother to research what your after prior to going there.

Specialist pc gear is something I wouldn't usually consider them for but the 1070 was too good to miss at the time.
 
robgmun said:
Actually i thought they are under obligation seeing that's the advertised price? I'm pretty sure it's in law somewhere as i used it when they mis-priced a Logitech MX mouse a couple of years ago
Click to expand...

It's not in law. Quite the opposite - the law is clear that they are under no obligation.

The legal distinction is between an offer and an invitation to treat. A stated price is very clearly established by ample precedent as being an invitation to treat even if it includes the word "offer". The distinction between the two lies in when mutual acceptance occurs because that is when a contract is formed.

So if, for example, I put up a sign saying I would pay £50 to whoever cleaned my car then that would constitute an offer and I would be obliged to pay £50 to whoever cleaned my car because mutual acceptance occured when someone cleaned my car. Their acceptance occured when they cleaned my car. Since I had not stated any other requirements, my acceptance occured when I put up the sign. In effect, I had created an open contract with the sign.

If, on the other hand, I put up a sign saying that my car was on sale for £500 that would be an invitation to treat, not an offer, because mutual acceptance would occur only when I had agreed to accept the buyer's money for my car and they had agreed to accept my car for their money. There is no contract until that mutual agreement occurs.
 
Diddums said:
I'd rather bang Susan Boyle than buy from Curry's PC World.
Click to expand...

8NRUfep.jpg
 
Delta3D said:
Sounds like a good deal :p

Always amazes me how many staff they have in Currys PC World, can't look at a single aisle without being asked "Can I help you with anything?".
Click to expand...

That's only applicable if you don't want any help.
 
Was in PCWorld the other day just looking around, picked up a fitbit for the other half, did check online and would have saved myself £9 but she wanted it then lol

I like going to PC World as often they have headsets, mice, keyboards on display you can play with, try on etc so handy if not sure what something will be like to use.

Kimbie
 
I had an rather annoying experience during the black Fridays sales in Currys, the Mrs spotted an LG TV in the deals online so we went into store to pick one up. We saw the TV on display, liked the look of it, so asked one of the sales guys if we could buy one.

He was then insistent on trying to up sell us to other sets that that were upwards of £300 more, after several minutes of this we started to lose our patience with him. He then bluntly said: "Sorry, there aren't any of those LG ones left in stock, you should have reserved one", before promptly jumping on the next person looking behind us.

Ok, annoying that he'd wasted some of our time, but suppose he's right given it was black Friday. We checked online and saw that they were in stock at another local store, this time we reserved one before heading over. We told one of the sales people at this new store that we had reserved a TV and were here to pick it up, nope can't find us on the system. Tries searching for us manually, still can't find us. We tried reserving one again in store just to be safe, still no joy.

Turns out he kept putting the wrong name in the system, even after I'd told him at least 4 times, spelling it out twice when he'd asked :confused:

So, our order was finally found, now time to pay. We were paying some by card, some by a gift card. Nope that's impossible, cannot be done, never heard of this being done before. It takes about 15 minutes for him to finally ask for help after fumbling around, his colleague then managed to show him how to do it within 30 seconds. Except no, he keeps charging the wrong amount on the gift card and keeps messing up the till system.

Finally his colleague comes back over and puts the sale through, OK all sorted, lets show the person carrying our TV to the car and get home. Just as we walk through the automatic doors....WHACK!! BAM!! he smacks the box on the top of doorway and it goes flying out of his hands, box all dented and broken.

Back inside the shop we go to join the massive queue for the customer service desk, must have been another 25 minutes before we finally got sorted, carried it out ourselves this time. Mental how one simple thing can turn into a full evening of running around and frustration, we didn't even bother setting it up for another day or two because we were that annoyed about the whole thing :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom